The Lost Boy
by Stuff Audio
Activeen·12 episodes
societyculturedocumentarytrue crime
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<p>One ordinary day almost a decade ago, John Beckenridge abducted his stepson, Mike, from school and vanished.</p><p>Police investigated for four years, but with no proof of what happened, asked a court to make sense of the crime.</p><p>That court heard dozens of hours of evidence, and tried to determine how a marriage breakdown became a manhunt and then a mystery.</p><p>As well as a kidnapping, the story includes cryptic phone messages, a car plunging from an 80-metre cliff and allegations of secret bank accounts, criminal accomplices and illegal border crossings.</p><p>We'll take you inside the courtroom as two opposing theories are put to the test. Are John and Mike alive or dead?</p><p>From Stuff Audio, New Zealand’s leader in true crime podcasts, and <a href="https://www.thepress.co.nz/">The Press</a> newspaper, this is the story of a calculating man with a dark past, the 11-year-old boy he controlled and the distraught mother left behind.</p><p><strong><em>Podcasts like this tak